Piaget (Piaget), Jean

(9.08.1896 - 1980) - Swiss psychologist, founder of the Geneva School of genetic psychology. In the initial period of the activity described features representations of children about the world: peace and undivided self, animism, artifikalizm (perception of the world as created by human hands). To explain using the concept of egocentrism, . which implies a certain position in relation to the world, . overcome by socialization process and influencing the design of child logic: syncretism (the binding of all with all), . nonperception contradictions, . the total disregard for the analysis of the private, . misunderstanding of some concepts of relativity, . All these phenomena are the most vivid expression of egocentric speech. Later M. Piaget turned to the study of intelligence, . which saw the result of internalization of external action and in which singled stages: sensory-motor intelligence (up to 2 years), . specific operations (up to 12 years), . comprising the steps dooperatornogo intelligence,